Why won't iTunes sync album artwork to my iPhone?

Today, I plugged my iPhone 3GS into my Windows 7 (32) computer. iTunes pops up and tells me that another computer is handling my library. Long story short- My phone loses everything. I decide to take this as a oppurtunity to fine tune my phone's library and I start dragging music to my phone. All of my music appears on the phone but none of the albums include any artwork. When I select an album from the iTunes library the artwork is present. When I take that album and drag it to my phone, the artwork doesn't come with it. Why? Is there some way to get the album artwork to show up on my phone without manually adding the 204 album covers one by one?

Similar problem with the new iPad.  Could not sync H.264 1080p video. 
Tried to move as both video and photo but received error message both times.  Confirmed CODEC was H.264.  The same video rendered as H.264 720p would sync.  Also, if the same video was rendered as as a MOV file (much bigger file), the file would sync. 
Purchased iMovie and iPhot for iPad but they were no help.  Furthermore, in iTunes, adding 1080p video for transfer to iPad using both apps seemed to work (iPad memory decreased and files appeared in iTune transfer area) but could not find the files on the iPad using any app. 
Apple tech support was courteous but could not help.  Bottom line: If iTunes would get out of the way, the iPad would be useable.

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